Rome ridicule

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Rome ridicule

poem by Saint-Amant

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Marc-Antoine Girard, sieur de Saint-Amant
His Rome ridicule (1649) started the fashion for burlesque poems that was to be developed later by Paul Scarron. Saint-Amant was a Protestant who converted in later life to Roman Catholicism. His biblical epic, Moïse sauvé (1653; “Moses Rescued”), though uneven, contains passages of great force…
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His Rome ridicule (1649) started the fashion for burlesque poems that was to be developed later by Paul Scarron. Saint-Amant was a Protestant who converted in later life to Roman Catholicism. His biblical epic, Moïse sauvé (1653; “Moses Rescued”), though uneven, contains passages of great force…
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